1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
ololo11 [35]
3 years ago
14

Which two spheres are involved when it rains and the rainwater moves into rivers and lakes

Social Studies
2 answers:
erastova [34]3 years ago
4 0

Answer: The Earth has a finite amount of water. The water that is here today is the same water that will be here in 20 or even 20 million years’ time. So, if all living things use water, how is it that we don’t use up all our water? The answer is that water is constantly recycled through the Earth’s system through a process called the water cycle. The water cycle encompasses a number of processes that circulate water through the Earth’s subsystems. Water evaporates from within soils and through vegetation and from bodies of water (such as rivers, lakes and oceans). This evaporated water accumulates as water vapour in clouds and returns to the Earth as rain or snow. The returning water falls directly back into the oceans, or onto land as snow or rain. It soaks into the soil to move into the groundwater or runs off the Earth’s surface in streams, rivers and lakes, which drain back into the oceans. The water may be taken up by plants and returned to the atmosphere through processes like transpiration and photosynthesis. Water may also be returned to the atmosphere through the combustion of plants in fossil fuel. Water and the atmosphere

Water enters the atmosphere through evaporation, transpiration, excretion and sublimation:

Transpiration is the loss of water from plants (via their leaves).

Animals excrete water by respiration and by passing urine.

Sublimation is when ice or snow transforms directly into water vapour without going through a liquid phase (i.e. they do not melt).

Water commonly occurs in the atmosphere in the form of water vapour. If it cools down, it can condense, accumulating in clouds. As the clouds grow, they become heavier and can fall back to the Earth as precipitation (rain, snow, hail or sleet) or re-evaporate back into vapour.

Water and the biosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere

When water returns to Earth, it can either enter the hydrosphere or the geosphere. It can enter the hydrosphere by falling onto bodies of water or falling onto the ground. When it rains, water falling onto the ground can move in two ways – it can run off the surface of the ground and enter streams and rivers, or it can seep into the ground and enter the ground water. This second process is called infiltration – water moves through pore spaces between soil particles or rocks.

Once the water is in the hydrosphere or geosphere, it can be used by living things. Plants can take water from the soils, and animals can drink water from rivers and lakes or eat plants. Even microbes deep in the ground live in tiny films of water surrounding rocks. The water will then stay in the biosphere until released through evaporation, transpiration, excretion, decay, respiration and combustion and the whole process begins again.

It may stay in the hydrosphere or geosphere for a long time (such as in aquifers) or it may very quickly return to the atmosphere.

These processes that transform and transfer water within the Earth’s system occur continuously over time but at different rates in different places.

Whitepunk [10]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

Atmosphere and hydrosphere

Explanation:

The atmosphere refers to the gaseous envelope of earth and is comprised of variable gases with definite proportions.

On the other hand, the hydrosphere refers to all the water bodies on earth, including the glaciers, icebergs, rivers, lakes, and oceans.

In the given question, the spheres that are involved are hydrosphere and atmosphere. It is because the rain occurs when the warm and less dense air rises up in the atmosphere and undergoes the process of condensation. This results in the formation of clouds and rainfall occur. This phenomenon takes place in the atmosphere. And after the occurrence of rain, these waters are added to the rivers and lakes, which covers the region of the hydrosphere.

Thus, the atmosphere and the hydrosphere are the two distinct spheres that are related to the given condition.

You might be interested in
In what way do consumers benefit from a company being able to increase its
notka56 [123]

Answer:

C. By lowering prices.....

3 0
3 years ago
Which president is credited with creating Social Security?
Neporo4naja [7]
C. Franklin D. Roosevelt
7 0
3 years ago
Supppose that the federal government places a binding price floor on coffee. To help support the price floor, the government pur
andrey2020 [161]

Answer:

A). It will decrease - 'the quantity of coffee demanded.'

B). It will increase - 'the quantity of coffee supplied by producers'

Explanation:

'Binding price floor' is demonstrated as the price greater than the equilibrium price set by the government to ensure that the prices of such products do not fall below a specific limit.

As per this definition, <u>the quantity of coffee demanded by the consumers will decrease while the quantity supplied(by producers) will increase if the binding price remains constant for several years</u>. This situation of decrease in the quantity demanded(due to hike in prices which is artificially made by the government) while an increase in quantity supplied(due to people reducing purchases as a consequence of hike in prices) which helps ensure a surplus in that good i.e. 'coffee' here.  

4 0
3 years ago
Why was the outcome of the french and indian war important for american colonists
Brut [27]
"The French and Indian War was fought to decide if Britain or France would be the Strong power in North America."
5 0
3 years ago
Argumento casual de virus
melomori [17]

Answer:

?????????????

Explanation:

5 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • List two reasons why a voter should vote in every election.
    6·2 answers
  • A responsibly of the Vice President is
    12·1 answer
  • A federally sponsored test in the united states is called the national assessment of educational progress.
    5·1 answer
  • At the zoo, a chimpanzee has figured out how to use the right kind of stones to crack open the nuts thrown to him by spectators.
    5·1 answer
  • Becky was the successful manager of a busy flower shop when she began to have panic attacks. at first, she only had them while o
    12·1 answer
  • A possible reward of opening up a lemonade stand is _____ .
    15·2 answers
  • For what did the Populist movement stand? farmers big business railroad rates lower income taxes the common man
    7·1 answer
  • A book is placed on a table and a rock sits on top of a cliff.
    5·2 answers
  • Explain why governments may charge oil firms a higher corporation tax rate than other firms
    12·1 answer
  • The classified portion of the u.s. standing rules of engagement (sroe) is organized ______________ to facilitate quick reference
    11·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!